I have an Acer Aspire 5100 with 2 Gigs of RAM, AMD Turion 64 processor, Windows Vista Premium, I regularly do virus and spyware checks, I do Disc Defragments and cleanups every week. My computer runs VERY slow and struggles to run even YouTube videos.
Can anyone tell me how I can “optimize my system performance”?
I don't have many programs installed. I'd say only about 3 major programs and they don't take up much space
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6 responses so far ↓
1 Allison25 // Aug 12, 2008
Clean it up. Get rid of all the stuff/programs that you don’t use.
2 Ramaswamy S // Aug 12, 2008
Defragment Hard Drive and clean your Registry
3 Jones C // Aug 12, 2008
Laptops-
http://headaray.net/
4 chezzrob // Aug 12, 2008
i collected this info, just for you !!!
Vista tweaks
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=132
Set up Vista start menu
http://www.vistastartmenu.com/index.html
Internet tweaks xp
http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?s=&postid=643301#post643301
Wow vista lag?
first go to start menu then search (above recent items) then search for "command prompt" then right click on command prompt and run as administrator.
Enter the following:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=disabled
If you found that this doesn’t fix your problem, you can turn it back on by entering the following:
netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
Vista crap
…ok, first i'd simply recomend going in and turning off all the crap, a good starting point would be running this registry file that will turn off everything that doesnt need to be on at boot.
http://www.speedyvista.com/registry.php safe settings should be perfect
….this link right here is great, read it
http://forum.notebookreview.com/showthre…
get cccleaner, revo uninstall..http://www.ccleaner.com/download
http://www.revouninstaller.com/revo_unin…
Poor Game Performance
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You may get some ideas out of this
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/909944/en-us
you need to set up ie7 because its used for updates and messenger
IE7
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Over time IE7 seems to set its own (or programs do) tick boxes in the advance tab.
In IE7 Tools >Internet Options >Advance Tab
Click Restore advance settings defaults button.
Then scroll the listings down to near the bottom and:
Tick empty temp files when browser closes (this empties the cache, which if not empty, will stop you from going online).
Bullet disable phishing filter (optional. Leave it on if you want that type of protection, usually for financial data like internet banking)
Delete Browser History, cookies, add ons, the whole lot regularly.
Close the browser to set the settings.
5 TechKnow // Aug 12, 2008
There is a nice article on slow computer and its solution. Have a look on it.It may help you to resolve your problem.
http://itsupportcell.com/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=38
6 Mickey L // Aug 12, 2008
If your virus/spyware free, there are a couple things you can do get your computer working faster. If you using your computer for normal stuff and not gaming. You don’t always need more RAM you just need to perform a few maintenance task.
First, if you haven’t cleaned your registry in a while. This is necessary. Your registry holds all the information regarding updates, installs, un-installs etc. Each one of those events produces a key. That key needs your PC’s resources and free space. So, if you clean your registry, you make more resources available for speed. Do a registry scan if you got more than 20 errors you should clean it.
http://www.delete-computer-history.com/what-is-the-best-registry-cleaner.html
2. Clear your Windows cache files, this is your temporary file. It can grow up to a large volume and stop your computer from using RAM properly. In a sense slow it down by preventing it from using free space.Here is how:
1. Quit Internet Explorer, Firefox, or any other web browser
2. Click Start, click “Control Panel”, and then double-click “Internet Options”.
3. On the General tab, click “Delete Files” under Temporary Internet Files.
4. In the Delete Files dialog box, click to select the “Delete all offline content” check box , and then click OK.
5. Click OK.
3. Manage your startups. Your excess CPU usage is due to too many programs running in the background. You can cut these to barebones by alter your msconfig. Here is how:
1. Open your Start menu.
2. Click Run
3. In the command screen type “msconfig.exe”
4. In the “system configuration utility”,click either “service” or “startup” tab
5. Uncheck all programs that your are no longer using.
6. Click “OK”
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